Invited by the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department (IPD), our President, Dr. Jacqueline Lui, gave a talk for the IP Manager Training Program on Management and Exploitation of Patents.
我们的过去活动
Recommended Insights
China Announcing More Proposed Amendments to the Examination Guidelines in 2022
2022年11月17日It’s been a year and a half since the new Chinese Patent Law came into effect (1 June 2021). Although various versions of draft Examination Guidelines have been released, thus far no official finalized versions have been confirmed. On October 31, 2022, yet another new list of proposed amendments was published[1], this time consolidating the […]
阅读更多 >
AI is magical but NOT magic! Be specific in your AI patents!
2025年1月9日What is the standard of sufficient disclosure for AI-related patents: A case study in China The rapid growth of AI patent applications present significant challenges to existing patent application and examination practices. One of them is satisfying the requirement for sufficient disclosure. The following case was featured in the 2023 CNIPA Compilation of Key Decisions […]
阅读更多 >
Narrow Claim Scope of a Chinese Utility Model Patent Fuels Design-Arounds by Failing to Curb Competing Products:
2020年10月28日Learning from a 2019 China’s Top 50 Representative IP Case The number of patent applications in China is now the highest in the world, with more than half the applications filed as utility model applications (UMs). For example, there were more than 2 million UMs filed in 2018 alone (for the difference between a utility […]
阅读更多 >
The Latest on Post-Filing Data in China’s Patent Law
2020年4月29日Post-filing data can sometimes be the crucial difference between a patent allowance and a final rejection. The reasons are endless why important data may not have been included in the original patent application as filed. Time and budget may have been insufficient to generate data over the full scope of the claims at the time […]
阅读更多 >